When I came to write my Thomas Cromwell books, I moved onto the center ground of English history, but I was never there before. I didn't feel it was my history particularly, coming from Northern Britain, being of Irish extraction, being a cradle Catholic. The image of England I grew up with felt somewhere else. There was an official England in postcards, but it wasn't one I had visited. But I decided to march onto the center ground and occupy it whether it was mine or not.
Beneath every history, another history. - Hilary Mantel
Beneath every history, another history.
- Hilary Mantel
The word 'however' is like an imp coiled beneath your chair. It induces ink to form words you have not yet seen, and lines to march across the page a… - Hilary Mantel
The word 'however' is like an imp coiled beneath your chair. It induces ink to form words you have not yet seen, and lines to march across the page a…
Insight cannot be taken back. You cannot return to the moment you were in before. - Hilary Mantel
Insight cannot be taken back. You cannot return to the moment you were in before.
The things you think are the disasters in your life are not the disasters really. Almost anything can be turned around: out of every ditch, a path, i… - Hilary Mantel
The things you think are the disasters in your life are not the disasters really. Almost anything can be turned around: out of every ditch, a path, i…
A novel should be a book of questions, not a book of answers. - Hilary Mantel
A novel should be a book of questions, not a book of answers.
Every leader operates under the threat of assassination. - Hilary Mantel
Every leader operates under the threat of assassination.
Write a book you'd like to read. If you wouldn't read it, why would anybody else? Don't write for a perceived audience or market. It may well have va… - Hilary Mantel
Write a book you'd like to read. If you wouldn't read it, why would anybody else? Don't write for a perceived audience or market. It may well have va…
When people begin to talk about "our island story" my hackles rise. It is deluded and conservative. - Hilary Mantel
When people begin to talk about "our island story" my hackles rise. It is deluded and conservative.
Feminism hasn't failed, it's just never been tried. - Hilary Mantel
Feminism hasn't failed, it's just never been tried.
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